roadblocked

verb

past tense of roadblock
as in blocked

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  1. blocked
  2. barricaded
  3. delayed
  4. blockaded
  5. arrested
  6. mired
  7. retained
  8. bound
Verb
  • Renal infarction is when the flow of blood to your kidney gets blocked, leading to the death of kidney tissue.
    — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2026
  • Around the country, more than 530 counties and municipalities have blocked or severely restricted data centers, according to Heatmap Pro, a clean energy news service.
    — John Lippert, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2026
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  • Residents said the gunman barricaded himself inside a third-floor apartment and remained there for hours as police urged him to come outside.
    — Andrew Ramos, CBS News, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Pizzini explained that because Carol spends so much of the story barricaded inside, the home was designed with an interior atrium to preserve natural light after the windows were shuttered.
    — Deadline, Deadline, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of barricaded
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  • According to the flight tracking website FlightAware, 45% of flights in and out of Chicago O'Hare International Airport were delayed on Tuesday, and 10% were canceled.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 11 Aug. 2026
  • Each step introduces friction — points where patients may be delayed, confused, or lost in the process entirely.
    — Jeffrey Millstein, STAT, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of delayed
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  • Iran’s proxies in the region, the Houthis, have since blockaded another strait – the Bab-al-Mandeb – challenging Saudi Arabia’s ability to export oil through that alternate route.
    — David Goldman, CNN Money, 3 Aug. 2026
  • During the early nineteen-eighties, when Paul Volcker, the chair of the Federal Reserve, raised interest rates to twenty per cent in the face of rampant inflation, furious farmers blockaded the Fed’s headquarters with their tractors.
    — John Cassidy, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of blockaded
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  • An 18-year-old Los Banos resident was arrested on suspicion of murder after a man was found shot to death early Sunday in Turlock, police said.
    — Cecilio Padilla, CBS News, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Manuel Hernandez, 46, of Manhattan, was arrested early Sunday and charged with 13 counts of reckless endangerment, just hours after the boat carrying 14 people overturned in New York Harbor, the New York Police Department said.
    — Gloria Pazmino, CNN Money, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of arrested
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  • Sudan has been mired in a brutal civil between government forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) for more than three years.
    — Kate Bartlett, NPR, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Other projects have been mired in litigation, including plans to close the Kennedy Center for two years for renovations.
    — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of mired
Verb
  • Once a private mansion belonging to art collectors Édouard André and his wife Nélie Jacquemart, the museum dates from the late 19th century, and its café has retained much of the original residence’s grandeur.
    — Amy Bradford, Architectural Digest, 5 Aug. 2026
  • For complicated legal reasons, Sony has retained distribution rights to Spider-Man even though the film franchise is produced by Disney’s Marvel Studios.
    — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of retained
Verb
  • Perhaps most importantly, the brothers had an indisputable chemistry, both in the studio and bounding around racks of equipment on stage.
    — Will Pritchard, Pitchfork, 8 Aug. 2026
  • Instead, after some slight weakness, the stock steadied, and then bounded up 6% higher.
    — Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of bound
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“Roadblocked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/roadblocked. Accessed 13 Aug. 2026.

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